Improvement in boots



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Boots.

Patented Sept. 22, m74.A

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ISAAC HALL, OF BSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. i

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,301, dated September 22, 1874 application filed August 6, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, IsAAc HALL, of Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Back-Seamed Boots or Shoes; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which` Figure 1 denotes the mode of forming or cutting the upper or shoe and leg portions of a boot, in accordance with my invention or improvement. Fig. 2 is a side view, and Fig. 3 a back view, of the upper as it appears after being crimped and prepared for being secured to the counter. Fig. 4. is a rear view, and Fig. 5 a side elevation, of a boot made with my improvement.

On June 26,1866, Letters Patent No. 55,799 were granted to John Adams for an improved mode of manufacturing boots, such Letters Patent having since been assigned to me.

On'May 27, 187 8, Letters Patent No. 139,385 were granted to me on an improvement or invention which related to or embodied the said invention ofthe said Adams, and consisted in the combination essentially of such, and a protector or strip of leather or material extended from the soles at the back of the heel upward to, and across, the upper seam or stitching of the counter or heel piece, and the leg part of the upper above such, the said protector being above the said seam, and being stitched to the counter and the leather or part extending above it, all being as set forth in the said patent No. 139,385.

In carrying out my present invention, the stay or protector is made in one and the same piece with the upper, and is composed of part of the material which, in the formation of the upper, as shown in said Adams patent, is removed from it in order to form the heel notches, which, on completion of the boot, are covered by the counter or cap, or separate heel piece.

Fig. l represents the leg and foot piece, slit on lines a b c-a b c to form the necessary side notches, and the parts to compose the protector or stay. I usually cut these pieces along the lines a d, the approximately triangular portions a b d not being necessary, although they may be left to form parts of the stay parts A A. After the leather of the upper may have been crimped and folded,it will have the appearance shown in side view in Fig. 2, in which A denotes one of the stay portions, and B the notch next adjacent to it.

The two stay portions A A extend down the back of the heel, and are generally to be sewed together, so as to render the back seam of the boot-leg continuous down to the lower ends of the said parts A A, which I usually carry between, and fasten to, the inner and outer soles, as the lower part of a boot is usually extended between and connected with the said soles, the counter or separate heel piece or cap C being rst arranged across the extensions A A and the openings B B, and sewed or stitched to said extensions and the leather, or material from which they may project.

In Fig. 4 the back seam of the boot is shown at a, the stitching of the counter to the upper and to the extensions A A being represented in Figs. 4 and 5, at b and c, such gures also showing, `by dotted lines d d, the positions of the outer edges of the protector or extension A A.

, The object of the protector piece is set forth and explained in my said patent No. 139,385, and therefore need not be herein repeated.

It will be observed that in order to accomplish this object I do not in my present invention use a protector separate from the npper of the boot, shoe, or bootee, and extending above the counter or cap C 3 but, in conj unction with the notches B and the said counter or cap C, I employ the extensions A A in one piece with the rest of the leg and foot part D. By so doing I not only effect an important saving in material, but avoid the projection within the boot, such as necessarily results from the use and arrangement of the protector, in manner as explained in my said patent, such projection being liable to more or less obstruct the drawing of the boot upon the foot of a person. l

I would remark that the extensions A A, instead of being fastened to either or both the soles, may terminate a little or somewhat above such, and be fastened to the counter or cap piece C, or they may be fastened to one or both the soles without being fastened to the counter or cap piece, and vthey may be sewed together or not, as may be desirable. I prefer, however, not only to stitch them together at or near their rear edges, but to the counter, and also fasten them to one or both the soles. In either case they Will-relieve the horizontal seam stitches of the counter or cap piece C from strain While the boot or shoe may be in the act of being drawn on the foot, or be 1n Wear.

I therefore claim- In combination with the counter or cap C, and with the boot or shoe upper D, notched, t0

enable it to be crimped. at the junction ofthe foot and leg porti0'ns,tlie extensions A A in one piece With the upper, and arranged with the notches B B thereof and the counter or cap C, and sewed or fastened to the latter, or to the soleor soles, ,orto both counter and one or both the soles, all substantially as specied.

ISAAC HALL.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

